There are many comic books made by overactive imaginations and caffeine-fueled individuals.

However manic and animated they may seem, people have got to respect the creators for forming a vision in their heads and allowing it to come into fruition.

People like Stan Lee and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, creators of Marvel and DC, two of the most famous comic book industries in the United States.

Of course, these companies didn’t become famous by writing about lame, ordinary people. They wrote chronicles involving superheroes and villains alike.

I’ve liked just about every character they have written about from your Daredevil to your Green Lantern, from the X-Men to the Fantastic Four, from Spider-Man (my favorite) to Batman.

There is just one hero I dislike above all: the so-called Man of Steel.

Let’s look at a scenario. Fred is watching a Superman television show and sees Clark Kent go into a television booth.

After watching Superman for most of his natural, he knows this is when the regular man becomes the hero known as Superman.

Later in the show, a seemingly gargantuan plane crashes down on the caped hero. Fred already can guess what is going to happen and sure enough, Superman picks the plane upand chucks it like it’s a pebble.

Uh-Oh. Superman has run into Lex Luther, his annoying super-nemesis.

Just when it seems like Superman can defeat Luther, he is weakened by Kryptonite, his only weakness.

Wait … Superman has a weakness. Not only that, but this weakness is an object from his home planet that he should have been immune to.

The whole premise of Superman starts to appeal less and less to Fred, as with each episode the same exact things begin to happen.

Fred begins to find that Superman bores him because of his reoccurring abilities and weaknesses, until the end when Superman meets his death in his greatest fight of all.

Now let’s see what Ben is watching.

He sees an interesting, dismal background of Gotham City – not the frivolous, glorious and bright background of Metropolis.

Even other superheroes’ cities are more realistic than the goody-goody place where Kent lives.

Ben sees the Dark Knight emerge from the shadows in all of his solemnity and fear that he imposes.

You see him zip through the air, hang-glide and race his Batmobile through Gotham, running over police vehicles not letting anything get in his way.

You hear his butler Alfred and his clever euphemisms and dialogue.

Then comes the villains such as The Joker and The Riddler, Penguin and Two-Face.

Batman was already intriguing enough with his own super-agent, ninja-like antics, but when you add these oddball villains to the mix, it makes for one hell of a series.

Not only that, but Batman’s philosophy is interesting as well.

He doesn’t intend to save everyone like Superman. He just wants to prevent the villains from having their way.

This is a more realistic way of looking at things than Superman’s save-them-all attitude, and it distinguishes Batman as a vigilante rather than some stereotypical hero.

Batman does a lot of things people don’t expect and Ben enjoys the show because of that.

I apologize to all the Superman fans out there, but honestly the S on the man’s chest should stand for stereotypical.

I don’t know if it is because he is one of the oldest superheroes or because he was just made that way but he is boring and repetitive.

To all of the people who disagree, I ask when you think of a superhero and the attributes in powers, weaknesses and attitude that the hero should have, who do you think of?

If I could brainstorm what I thought a superhero should be, I would always think about Superman.